 THAT time of year thou mayst in me behold When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang Upon those boughs which shake against the cold, Bare ruined choirs, where late the sweet birds sang. In me thou see'st the twilight of such day As after sunset fadeth...  The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighiere - Page 362by Dante Alighieri - 1892Full view - About this book
 | Philip Schaff - 1890 - 226 pages
...Changing condition rich and mendicant. ' ' 3 1 Inferno, I., 100 sqq. 2 Parad., xvII., 82-90, sqq. Norton, "is grave, as with the shadow of distant sorrow; the...had gone ' 'Per tutti i cerchj del dolente regno. ' ' 1 " All the portraits of Dante," says Lord Macaulay, in his essay on Milton, " are singularly characteristic.... | |
 | Philip Schaff - 1890 - 476 pages
...first volume of Plumptre's Dante (1887), in Fraticelli's and other editions of the Commedia. Norton, "is grave, as with the shadow of distant sorrow; the...face of the man is solemn, as of one who had gone 1 1Per tntti i cerchj del dolente regno. ' ' i " All the portraits of Dante," says Lord Maeaulay, in... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1890 - 458 pages
...time of year thou mayst in me behold When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang Upon those boughs which shake against the cold, Bare ruined choirs, where late the sweet birds sang. In me thou seest the twilight of such day, As after sunset fadeth in the west, Which by and by black... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1890 - 384 pages
...of year thou mayst in me behold, When yellow leaves, or few, or none, do hang Upon those boughs that shake against the cold, Bare ruined choirs where late the sweet birds sang." Or again : — " From thee have I been absent in the spring, When proud-pied April, dressed in all... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1890 - 410 pages
...year thon mayst in me behold, When yellow leaves, or few, or none, do hang ' Upon those boughs that shake against the cold, Bare ruined choirs where late the sweet birds sang." Or again: — " From thee have I been absent in the spring, When proud-pied April, dressed in all his... | |
 | James Thomson - 1891 - 458 pages
...song-birds themselves. So Shakespeare — * Yellow leaves, or none or few, do hang Upon those boughs which shake against the cold, Bare, ruined choirs, where late the sweet birds sang.' Sonnet Ixxiii. 526, 527. to save the fall of Virtue, &c. Cp. Milton's Comus — ' If virtue feeble... | |
 | Barrett Wendell - 1891 - 338 pages
...of year thou mayest in me behold, When yellow leaves, or none, or few do hang Upon the boughs that shake against the cold, — Bare, ruined choirs where late the sweet birds sang." Here is a somewhat curious complication of metaphor. In likening his temper to winter, Shakspere of... | |
 | Barrett Wendell - 1891 - 340 pages
...of year thou mayest in me behold, When yellow leaves, or none, or few do hang Upon the boughs that shake against the cold,—' Bare, ruined choirs where late the sweet birds sang." Here is a somewhat curious complication of metaphor. In likening his temper to winter, Shakspere of... | |
 | Barrett Wendell - 1891 - 340 pages
...of year thou mayest in me behold, When yellow leaves, or none, or few do hang Upon the boughs that shake against the cold, — Bare, ruined choirs where late the sweet birds sang." Here is a somewhat curious complication of metaphor. In likening his temper to winter, Shakspere of... | |
 | Barrett Wendell - 1891 - 340 pages
...of year thou mayest in me behold, When yellow leaves, or none, or few do hang Upon the boughs that shake against the cold, — Bare, ruined choirs where late the sweet birds sang." Here is a somewhat curious complication of metaphor. In likening his temper to winter, Shakspere of... | |
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